Gardeners Cottage, New Road, Lambourne End, Romford, RM4 1AJ

Gardeners Cottage is a detached house in Lambourne End, Romford, Romford (RM4 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1991 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2023) shows a G (score 2), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since July 2018. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

It hasn't traded since May 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 185 m² it's 17.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (158 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £1,053,000 sits 239.7% above the 1997 sale of £310,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£156/sq ft) was about 67.4% below the postcode norm.